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...conducive to British prestige that holders of British passports should be wandering about the world like Flying Dutchmen." Finally, beleaguered Home Secretary James Callaghan issued Ranjan a three-month entry permit. He also warned: "I cannot promise to make it easy for those who try to jump the queue...
...Americans, who are constantly told these days how much they have to feel guilty about, the demands of yet one more minority may seem almost more than the conscience can bear. Yet Indians can hardly be expected to keep their peace just because they have only lately joined the queue of those vociferously demanding social justice. If they continue to be rejected, many young Indians will continue to despair and will embrace the sentiments of Phil George, a young Nez Perce, who wrote...
...Accra, great crowds of foreigners joined an endless queue outside the Accra Sport Stadium, the emergency emigration center. As often as not, they paid $10 or $20 in "dash" money (bribes) for the proper forms. At night, many slept near Kotoka international airport -alongside billboards hailing African unity...
Juxtaposition makes trivia. Election results get scrambled with World Series scores and the falling stock quotations on "Black Thursday," 1929. Depression breadlines seem to queue up next to Earl Carroll chorus lines...
...visitors were, in fact, American tourists-San Marinese émigrés who had left the tiny republic in the Apennines of northern Italy years ago to settle in New York, Detroit and Sandusky, Ohio. But they were in the right queue. With their families, 450 San Marinese had enthusiastically boarded jets holding tickets paid for by the republic's Christian Democratic Party. Their mission was to help the Christian Democrats, leaders of the coalition that has ruled the country since 1957, stave off a ballot-box challenge by San Marino's Communist Party...